What do you like best about Ubuntu?

[Jonathan Byrne]

It just struck me  as I sit here, last one in my office, that I have 
never before encountered a Debian-based distro being used by so many 
beginners.  And not just used, but successfully installed.  Usually on 
the first try.

That, perhaps more than anything else, speaks very well of Ubuntu. To be 
new to Debian and get a fully successful install on your first try is a 
bit uncommon.  To do so as a Linux beginner is pretty much unheard 
of :-)

Like most Debian users I know, I have over five years of *nix 
experience, some of it as a professional sysadmin.  Most started, as I 
did, on some other distro and later moved to Debian.  The few I know 
who started on Debian did so with previous proprietary Unix experience.

For Ubuntu to have made a Debian-based distro which is easy to deal with 
for people who don't come from the sort of background I describe above, 
while simultaneously acting and feeling very "Debianish" for those of 
us who are coming from mainline Debian and like the way it works, is a 
truly great accomplishment.

My hat is off to the entire Ubuntu team. Congratulations on the official 
release of Warty!

Jonathan
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